Yesterday and today most of the site seems excruciatingly and very untypically slow for me. Is that legit workload, or is the server possibly being abused by a nefarious outsider?

Couldn’t help but wonder about the latter possibility, because of an odd account with what almost seems like probing behavior: http://ccmixter.org/people/...

Whatever it was, it seems to have passed several days ago. And I’m not sure, if my senses are failing me (since I didn’t take a stopwatch to ccM before, or now) - but it almost feels like ccM has become more snappy than it has been in years - pages load faster? Almost like a kindhearted soul (is that you,VS?) did a bunch of PageSpeed inspired optimizations.

In any case - the site feels mighty snappy on my desktop now. wohoo!